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Malay names: the most popular retro names for babies

It would seem that a good baby name, like a good fashion trend, never completely goes away. Just as fashion trends are recycled every few seasons and you suddenly find the military look or animal prints cool again, so too are classic baby names. This likely explains why we have been hearing more and more Malay and Muslim names that hark back to those old black-and-white P. Ramlee movies, and baju kurung-clad schoolgirls with pigtails playing simple games of five stones and hopscotch. It could be nostalgia, but whatever the reason, the classic names from the 1950s and 1960s are suddenly popular again. In fashion terms, they’re adorably retro chic.

True, parents continue to jump on the bandwagon of Q-names for their babies (Qaisara, Aqilah, Anaqi, Fareeq). However, these modern millennials still jostle for their spots on BabyCenter’s list of top baby names with the likes of good old-fashioned Aishah, Ahmad, Khadijah and Fatimah.

Here are some more retro-cool Malay and Muslim names we’ve seen in our list of baby names provided by BabyCenter Malaysia parents.

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